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How AI is speeding up stroke care Saving time in delivering thrombectomy services could be the difference between a good outcome and someone facing a life with a serious disability. By Jeff Wyrtzen Stroke is a devastating disease that affects more than 100,000 people each year in the UK. It occurs when blood supply to the brain is obstructed, causing brain cells to die and leaving many patients with life-altering disabilities. New treatments have emerged in the past few years th...

Two new Covid-19 related deaths confirmed in Devon The number of people who have passed away since the start of the pandemic after testing positive for Covid-19 is now at 700 15:53, 1 MAY 2021 Updated The video will auto-play soon8Cancel Play now Two people at Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital have died after testing positive for Covid-19. The latest deaths take Devon’s total number of Covid-19 related deaths in Devon’s hospitals since the start of the pandemic to 700. The deaths included in ...

FTSE 100 closes on the front foot, with AstraZeneca the top riser Footsie finished Friday ahead by around eight points, or 0.12%, at 6,969, FTSE 100 closes around eight points higher AstraZeneca top blue-chip riser 5.05pm: FTSE closes ahead FTSE 100 closed on the front foot at the end of the trading week, with drugs giant and much-in-the-news COVID-19 vaccine producer AstraZeneca (LON:AZN) the top dog. Footsie finished ahead by around eight points, or 0.12%, at 6,969, with the psychologically...

Card Factory moves higher after physical stores do better than expected A look at Fridays major share movers on the London Stock Exchange Card Factory PLC (LON:CARD) added 7% to 84.3p before close after announcing that performance following the reopening of stores in England and Wales has topped expectations. Sites in Scotland will resume trading on 26 April while those in Northern Ireland have reopened today. The greeting cards retailer has also headline terms for refinancing with its banks, w...

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30 April 2021 | 07:54am StockMarketWire.com - Clinical AI company Sensyne Health has signed a five year non-exclusive Strategic Research Agreement (SRA) with the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust. The agreement will enable the ethical application of clinical AI research to improve patient care and accelerate research into new medicines. The RD&E dataset covers 1.2 million unique patient records, with 110,000 annual hospital admissions (2019/20) from a patient population of approximate...

A look at Fridays major share movers on the London Stock Exchange

FTSE 100 closes on the front foot, with AstraZeneca the top riser Footsie finished Friday ahead by around eight points, or 0.12%, at 6,969, FTSE 100 closes around eight points higher AstraZeneca top blue-chip riser 5.05pm: FTSE closes ahead FTSE 100 closed on the front foot at the end of the trading week, with drugs giant and much-in-the-news COVID-19 vaccine producer AstraZeneca (LON:AZN) the top dog. Footsie finished ahead by around eight points, or 0.12%, at 6,969, with the psychologically...

Proactive news headlines: Gfinity, Synairgen, Chaarat Gold, Destiny Pharma... A glance at some of the days highlights from the Proactive Investors newswire Gfinity PLC (LON:GFIN) said it has acquired Drawnite.com, a fan website for the video game Fortnite in another expansion of its digital media arm. Genedrive PLC (LON:GDR) said its COVID-19 PCR test has been approved by Indian regulator after the 96 SARS-CoV-2 kit achieved 100% sensitivity and specificity in the performance evaluation conduct...

Card Factory moves higher after physical stores do better than expected A look at Fridays major share movers on the London Stock Exchange Card Factory PLC (LON:CARD) added 7% to 84.3p before close after announcing that performance following the reopening of stores in England and Wales has topped expectations. Sites in Scotland will resume trading on 26 April while those in Northern Ireland have reopened today. The greeting cards retailer has also headline terms for refinancing with its banks, w...